id you see it!" cried Jerry excitedly. "Didn't it look like
something blackish in the bottom of the boat?"

"She's full of water, that's all. Tod's down there under the fall.
He's drowned, I tell you! What shall we do? What shall we do!"
Excitable Dave was fast losing his head.

"Come on!" shouted Jerry, aroused by the helplessness of his
companion. "We've got to get to the mill and have them turn the
water through the race. Then we've got to get a boat out there--
quick!"

But he had not waited for Dave. Across the river just below the dam
was a house. If there was a telephone there--Jerry knew there was
one at the mill--something might yet be done in time. There was of
course no way of reaching the mill itself across that raging
torrent. There was a telephone at the house, but it seemed hours
after Jerry reached it before he finally got a gruff "Hello" from
the mill manager, Mr. Aikens. But, fortunately, Aikens was not slow
to grasp the situation. In the midst of his explanations Jerry
realiz